1. End of KS2 assessment.
Welcome.

2. Aims of the Evening
To give you a better understanding of end of year expectations.
To introduce the end of KS2 assessments and how your child will be tested.
Have an understanding of what your child will learn throughout the year.
To understand how we teach the core subjects.
To give you suggestions of how you can help at home.

3. Reading The Reading Assessment
1 hour to read booklet and answer questions.
There will be 3 texts and sets of questions which are all different difficulty levels and include both narrative and non-fiction extracts. (approx words, more fiction)
There are a variety of questions to assess the depth of understanding
Children cannot have any adult help to read and understand the questions

4. There are 4 main types of questions on the reading paper:
Literal – answer is there in the text
Deductive – look for clues
Inferential – read between the lines
Author intent – e.g. why does an author use a particular word

5. ‘A Day in the English Countryside’
Sentence from:
‘A Day in the English Countryside’
As the afternoon light started to fade, the cow stopped eating grass, stood instead with its head over the gate and gazed expectantly down the lane.
How light was it? (Literal)
What three things did the cow do? (Literal)
What time of day was it? (Deductive)
Where was the cow? (Deductive)
What do you think the cow was expecting? (Inferential)
What strategies does the writer use to give the reader so much information in a single sentence? (Authorial intent)

6. Your turn
On your desk there is a reading booklet. Please turn to the last section, California's Unlikely Warriors, and answer the following questions.

7. 29. How long ago did the plague of scale insects attack in America?
(1 mark)
31. The scale insects sound like an army.
Find and copy two words in the first two paragraphs that support this idea.
(2 marks)
36. Look at the second paragraph on page 9, beginning: When the unlikely warriors...
How does the writer emphasise the success of the ladybirds?
Explain fully, referring to the text in your answer.
(3 marks)

8. How can parents help with reading?
Ensure your child reads every night!
Encourage them to read fiction and non-fiction.
Try to ask them questions about the text.
Help them with the different skills of reading especially ‘skim’ reading where they are looking for key words in the text.

9. Remember

12. Maths
Welcome.

13. Key changes in Year 6: Long division Operations with fractions (all 4)
Decimal equivalents of fractions
Plotting points in 4 quadrants – reflections and translations
Understanding radius & diameter and their relationship to each other
Using basic algebra to calculate area and volume of 2D and 3D shapes e.g triangles, cuboids

14. Key recall facts they need to know!
Addition and subtraction facts to 20 (including decimals) 18 – 11 = = – 3.2 =
Multiplication and division facts for all times tables up to 12 × 12 – instant recall and apply this knowledge to answer questions including decimals
e.g. 0.7 × ⃝ = 4.2 or ⃝ ÷ 60 = 0.7
Common factors of numbers; the factors of 24 are 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12 and 24.
Convert between decimals, fractions and percentages
=0.21 = 21%
Prime numbers up to 50

15. The secret to success is practising little and often
The secret to success is practising little and often. Can you practise these while walking to school or during a car journey? Look at fact families; e.g. If 4 x 5 = 20, then we also know that 5 x 4 = 20, 20 ÷ 4 = 5, 20 ÷ 5 = 4. This is a fact family.
Speed Challenge – Take two suits of playing cards. Turn over two cards and ask your child to multiply/add/subtract the numbers (Ace = 1, Jack = 11, Queen = 12). How many questions can they answer correctly in 2 minutes? Practise regularly and see if they can beat their high score.
Mathsdrills.com live mathletics multiplication.com

16. End of KS2 assessment
1x arithmetic paper 35 questions in 30 mins (50 seconds per question – be ready to try it yourself!)
2x reasoning papers; 40 minutes each. (similar to old style SATS)
Met or not met required standard only, no levels.
Adults can read questions to children but can’t explain the meaning of any terminology or how to solve the problems.

18. 678 54 x 63
(37x20)
1591
(37x40)
111
74 (37x2) 37
37 (37x1)
2712
33900
3 4
36612 1

19. Reasoning – skills in context

21. How can you help? Be positive about maths
Practise instant recall of facts
Practise little but often
Play maths games
How can you help?
Give praise and encouragement
Ask your child to explain
Marianne
Allow your child to complete maths homework independently, be there to help if asked.

22. Helpful websites
BBC bitesize
NRICH nrich.maths.org/
Maths Warriors
Maths Anarchy
Live mathletics (how far can you get and beat the world)
Multiplication.com – does what it says!

23. Spelling, punctuation
and grammar

24. Grammar, punctuation and vocabulary One test paper Length: 45 minutes
Marks: 50
The writing level is teacher assessed.
Spelling
One test of 20 words
Length: about 15 minutes
Marks: 20

25. The new test
2014
2016
20% name and identify
45% name and identify
80% grammatical accuracy
55% grammatical accuracy
The SPAG test includes questions that assess the following elements of the English curriculum:
Sentence grammar through both identifying and writing sentences that are grammatically correct
Punctuation through identifying and writing sentences that are correctly punctuated
Vocabulary through identifying and writing sentences in which a word is used correctly
Spelling 

26. Constructed response:
Selected response:
Constructed response:

30. Spellings

31. How can you help?
Copy some sentences from a book and get him to underline either the main or subordinate clause.
Write down some unpunctuated sentences for your child to punctuate correctly.
Call out a word and ask your child to tell you a synonym (a word that means the same) or an antonym (a word that means the opposite).
When writing letters or s, encourage your child to add an adjective or adverb to a sentence (e.g. ‘Thank you for my wonderful birthday present’)
Call out words from the SPAG glossary and ask them for the definition.
Practise spellings in the car.

32. Useful websites: Bitesize
Topmarks
Crickweb

33. Useful books
Oxford Primary Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Dictionary.
CGP - KS2 English SATs Buster 10-minute Tests: Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling.
CGP – SATs Buster Book (Year 6).
CGP – Practice papers for the 2016 SATs and beyond.

35. Questions?
Thank you for coming